The UK allowance is generous on alcohol and unforgiving about going over it: exceed the wine limit by a litre and duty is charged on the whole eighteen.
- The alcohol allowance is 42 litres of beer and 18 litres of still wine, plus either 4 litres of spirits over 22 % or 9 litres of sparkling or fortified wine. You can split that last one - two litres of gin and four and a half of port.
- Go over and you pay on everything in that category, not on the excess. Nineteen litres of wine is duty on nineteen litres.
- Tobacco is 200 cigarettes or 250 g of loose tobacco or 50 cigars, and the same either-or split applies.
- Other goods are capped at GBP 390, dropping to GBP 270 if you arrive by private plane or boat. Allowances cannot be pooled between travellers.
- GBP 10,000 or more in cash must be declared when you travel between Great Britain and any other country, and that includes the EU.
- Meat and dairy from most non-EU countries are banned outright, along with self-defence sprays and flick knives. Northern Ireland follows the EU rules instead, not these.
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